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Trump's Sights Set On Payers And Pharmas, But Medtechs Must Not Be Complacent

 
• By Ashley Yeo

It's been a big month for plans intended to shape the future of health care in the US, with the Trump Administration showcasing its ACA replacement bill and issuing budget proposals. At this stage, it's hard to peg winners and losers and although the focus is squarely on insurance, the medtech sector should guard against complacency, says ZS Associates' Brian Chapman.

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A month after Donald Trump's election as US President last November, In Vivo asked Brian Chapman, ZS Associates' principal and leader of the firm's medical products consulting practice, for an early take on how medtech businesses and the sector in general would be affected by decisions likely to emerge from the new US administration and its three-line Republican monopoly. (Also see "US Medtech Under Trump: Below The Radar Or In The Line Of Fire?" - In Vivo, 12 December, 2016.)

At that early stage, it was hard to make any predictions, although the laser focus was already on insurance reform....

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